Textualizing Divination: The Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5:25.
Abstract The inscription in Dan 5:25 shares features with Mesopotamian divination as well as with later pesharim and rabbinic haggadic exegesis. In the inscription and its interpretation, the authors of Dan 5 applied mantic techniques to a sacred text-in this case, the writing on the wall 'sent by G...
| Publicado en: | Vetus Testamentum Vol. 62; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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